US Patent Issued to CHINA UNIONPAY on April 29 for "Processing method and apparatus for fee calculation, and vehicle payment system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,026, issued on April 29, was assigned to CHINA UNIONPAY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Processing method and apparatus for fee calculation, and vehicle payment system" was invented by Lijun Zu (Shanghai), Sishuang Wan (Shanghai), Yue Jin (Shanghai) and Shuo He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a fee calculation apparatus. The fee calculation apparatus includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive a unique identification of a vehicle; a transmission unit configured to send a first request to a vehicle payment system after completing a fee calculation, the first request including the unique identif...